Area code 770

770 is an area code in these Georgia areas:

Acworth Adairsville Alpharetta Aragon Atlanta Naval Air Station Auburn Austell Ball Ground Barnesville Barrett Parkway Bethlehem Bogart Bowdon Bowdon Jct Bowdon Junction Bremen Brooks Buchanan Buford Canton Carrollton Cartersville Cassville Cedartown Centerville Branch Chestnut Mountain Church Street Clarkdale Clermont Concord Conyers Covington Cumming Dacula Dallas Dobbins A F B Dobbins Afb Dobbins Air Force Base Douglasville Duluth Emerson Ephesus Esom Hill Experiment Fairburn Fayetteville Felton Flovilla Flowery Branch Gainesville Gillsville Good Hope Grantville Grayson Griffin Hampton Haralson Hiram Holly Springs Indian Springs Inman Jackson Jenkinsburg Jersey Jonesboro Kennesaw Kingston Lake Arrowhead Lake City Lawrenceville Lebanon Lilburn Lithia Springs Lithonia Lockheed Locust Grove Loganville Lovejoy Lula Luthersville Mableton Mansfield

Mar Marble Hill Marblehill Marietta Mc Donough Mcdonough Memorial Square Milner Molena Monroe Moreland Morrow Mount Zion Mreta Murrayville Nelson Newborn Newnan Norcross North Corners North Metro Oak Grove Oakwood Orchard Hill Oxford Palmetto Parkway Peachtree City Peachtree Corners Porterdale Powder Springs Primerica Financial Services Raymond Redan Rex Riverdale Rockbridge Rockmart Roopville Roswell Rydal Sandy Plains Sargent Senoia Sharpsburg Shenandoah Smyrna Snellville Social Circle Southwire St Mountain St Mtn State Farm Insurance Co Statham Stockbridge Stone Mountain Sugar Hill Sugarhill Sunny Side Suwanee Tallapoosa Tate Taylorsville Temple Tucker Turin Tyrone Union City Villa Rica Waco Waleska Walnut Grove West Georgia College Westside White Whitesburg Williamson Winder Winston Woodstock Woolsey Zebulon




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Area code 770 is a telephone area code in the NANP, assigned to Metro Atlanta, Georgia's suburbs and exurbs. It was split from 404 in December 1995, just three years after the 706 split.^[1] Due to exurban resident complaints about the original BellSouth maps leaving them no longer associated with the well-known 404, those rapidly-growing areas were put back into 404, forcing the entire suburban ring of metro Atlanta to lose 404 much earlier than necessary.

Today, 770 is reserved for use outside roughly Interstate 285, with 404 reserved for inside the Perimeter (I-285). Both codes are now overlaid by 678, and 470 (potentially very confusing with 404 and 770, and adjacent 478).

Currently, cell phone subscribers in the region can choose from either the 404, 678, or 770 area code when signing up for service. When the area was originally divided in 1995, all cellphones stayed with 404, which balanced the fact that most of the landline area went to 770.

In shorthand, 770 is sometimes written by local residents as 7/phone-number, 7-phone-number or 7)phone-number

Atlanta, Georgia, was the first city in the United States to have mandatory 10-digit dialing throughout its metro area, roughly coinciding with the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Atlanta was used as the test case not only due to its size, but also because it enjoyed the world's largest fiber optic bundle at the time (five times that of New York at the time), and it was home to BellSouth (now part of AT&T), then the Southeastern Regional Bell Operating Company.

See also

• List of NANP area codes
• Metro Atlanta

References

1. ^ "770 comes on line with little trouble; Anticlimax: Only about 1,000 people call BellSouth as new area code goes into effect". December 2, 1995. p. D2. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADA222737FAF40&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 

External links

• NANPA Area Code Map of Georgia
• AreaCode-Info.com
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 770 Area Code
• 770 Ninja

State of Georgia area codes: 229, 404, 470, 478, 678, 706, 762, 770, 912
	North: 706/762
West: 256/938	area code 770 completely surrounds 404; entire region overlaid by 470 and 678	East: 706/762
	South: 478, 706/762
State of Alabama Area Codes: 205, 251, 256, 334, 938

Coordinates: 34°02′19″N 84°20′35″W / 34.03853°N 84.34311°W / 34.03853; -84.34311

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